want business and tech reporter scott budman shows us the machine that is bringing us a smaller faster future. >> with sebastian on the microscope and hinrich on the atom-crunching computer, the silicon valley research center moves towards the future where technology is smaller, cheaper and much, much faster. >> this is another develop the of another 30 or 40 years in the future. >> a future where your ipod holds millions of songs and thousands of movies and solar panels bring in solar energy for a fraction of the cost. this machine by letting scientists watch atoms in realtime could help the scientists create much smaller and more powerful devices. >> we can store about 1,000 times more information in the same space where the memory stick will hold 1,000 times more information. >> to putz this in perspective, we were getting a tiny fraction of the storage we have now and paying 144 times more for it. the future is looking brighter and more affordable. >> the immediate impact on science right now. that will allow us to study what can be technology in 20 years's time. >> from a big mach